Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] very far " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a vanguard , in spite of one or two sensational assassinations , it was not going to get very far unless and until it managed to co-ordinate widespread resistance to the French . |
| 2 | Without their support we could not have gone very far . |
| 3 | Moulin 's behind-the-scenes work would probably not have gone very far , however , without a public appeal from de Gaulle to the leaders of the Resistance . |
| 4 | The seaside resorts in the North-West of England , as elsewhere , could not have grown very far without the railways … |
| 5 | But the towns of the south-west were not allowed to move very far towards the autonomous , quasi-republican institutions either of Languedoc or of Flanders . |